‘All we can’t see’ illustrating the nauru files, Adelaide
16 May 2015 | Risk rating: Major | Type of incident: Sexual assault | Downgraded: No | “... The NPF were informed and provided with details of her description and clothing. At approx. 2107hrs information was received that [REDACTED] was located by the police, walking naked in the community and then conveyed by police to the police station. An allegation of sexual assault has been made.”
I began this work with numerous drawings and small paintings of a woman naked in the landscape. In the end after much consideration, I decided to pay homage to this nameless woman without offering a literal reconstruction of events of violation and isolation she went through.
I began exploring the notion of ‘All We Can’t See’, the erasure and the emptiness of both the landscape and ourselves when we are forsaken or forsake.
This strong propensity to negate the 'Other' (Female, Indigenous, Refugee and Migrant) to separate and reject others disconnects us from our humaneness.
It brings in to question our own Paradise Lost, of 'shades of death, A universe of death.....' ( Milton)